{"id":49476,"date":"2025-12-14T23:42:39","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T23:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bytecosmico.com\/?p=49476"},"modified":"2025-12-14T23:43:34","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T23:43:34","slug":"hardware-crisis-pc-ram-costs-more-than-rtx-50-series-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bytecosmico.com\/en\/hardware-crisis-pc-ram-costs-more-than-rtx-50-series-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Hardware Crisis: PC RAM Now Costs More Than New RTX 50 Series Graphics Cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The nightmare for PC builders in 2025 has reached a critical new level. What was once one of the most affordable components of a computer, RAM has undergone such aggressive inflation that it now exceeds the price of next-gen graphics cards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reports from mid-December indicate that prices, which had already risen by 250% in November, have surged another 25% to 50% in recent weeks. The situation has flipped market logic on its head: today, it is cheaper to buy a high-performance GPU than to equip your machine with a decent amount of memory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Price Inversion: RTX 5070 vs. 64GB RAM<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>To illustrate the insanity of the current market, just look at the price tags. A new <strong>ASUS Prime GeForce RTX 5070<\/strong> can be found for <strong>$549.99<\/strong>. Its competitor, the <strong>ASRock Radeon RX 9070 XT<\/strong>, goes for <strong>$599.99<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In contrast, a 64GB <strong>Corsair Vengeance<\/strong> kit, essential for content creators and enthusiast gamers, jumped from $239 (in November) to an unbelievable <strong>$899.99<\/strong> in December. Even a basic 16GB kit from Kingston, which used to cost around $60, now breaks the $240 barrier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Blame it on AI (Again)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The root of the problem isn&#8217;t a shortage of raw materials, but a shift in priorities. Major manufacturers are shuttering their consumer-focused production lines (&#8220;budget brands&#8221;) to focus exclusively on the insatiable demand from Artificial Intelligence giants. With data centers paying premium prices for memory, the PC gamer has been left behind, forced to pay gold-standard prices for essential components.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>Source: <\/strong>Insider Gaming \/ December 2025 Market Analysis.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O pesadelo para quem deseja montar um PC em 2025 atingiu um novo n\u00edvel cr\u00edtico. O que antes era um dos componentes mais acess\u00edveis de um computador, a mem\u00f3ria RAM, sofreu uma infla\u00e7\u00e3o t\u00e3o agressiva que agora supera o pre\u00e7o de placas de v\u00eddeo de \u00faltima gera\u00e7\u00e3o. Relat\u00f3rios de meados de dezembro indicam que os &#8230; <a title=\"Hardware Crisis: PC RAM Now Costs More Than New RTX 50 Series Graphics Cards\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bytecosmico.com\/en\/hardware-crisis-pc-ram-costs-more-than-rtx-50-series-2\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Crise no Hardware: Mem\u00f3ria RAM Agora Custa Mais que Placas de V\u00eddeo da Gera\u00e7\u00e3o RTX 50\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49477,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[63,62,61],"class_list":["post-49476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tecnologia","tag-gpu","tag-hardware","tag-ram"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bytecosmico.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bytecosmico.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bytecosmico.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bytecosmico.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bytecosmico.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49476"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bytecosmico.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49479,"href":"https:\/\/bytecosmico.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49476\/revisions\/49479"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bytecosmico.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bytecosmico.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bytecosmico.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bytecosmico.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}